When using device-mapper-multipath on RHEL, why does the polling_interval appear to be 4x higher than the configured setting?

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Issue

  • We have the polling_interval set to 15 seconds, but straces of  multipathd show that it attempts IOs on the SAN disks once a minute.  Why?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

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